The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-04-28

& North Michigan requested the return Of
all legislators passes. Considerable dis
satisfaction was expressed by the legislators
who limited darkly about railroad legisla
ton lowering the passenger tariff, etc.
w ednesday the passes were returned to the
legislators and oil in serene.
The State department at Washington, has
been officially notified that the semi-centen-
NAL OF the introduction OF railroads into
France will be celebrated by an information
al exhibition under the private auspices OF
railways and the industries connected with
them, to be held ut Vincennes from May to
November OF the present year.
On the night of the 10Th, the vicinage Of
Norfolk, Va. was visited BY acyclons. The
house OF John Wright was completely de
molished, Mr.. Wright and his wife and
young sister. and James Luke, were in the
house at the time. Mrs. Wright and Mr..
Luke were killed, the young girl fatally in
jured and Mr.. Wright seriously hurt.
The Cleveland, Ohio. Farmer gives the
following estimates Of the new wheat crop:
About one fourth Of tho counties in Ohio
report prospects for the wheat crop OF 20 to
25 per cent OF last years crop. All the
the other quarter from Is to " per cent OF
the crop. Only two counties in Ohio report
fair crop. Reports from Indiana, West
Virginia and Pennsylvania are very sim
liar. Ohio, Illinois and Michigan report
from 80 to Nper cent Of full crop. while
and Missouri report fair to full stand.
A letter from Rudolph Schnaubelt, the
anarchist and alleged thrower OF the Hay
market bomb, has been received in Chicago.
1t is dated Christiana, Norway, March 1S,
and reaches us through the medium Of All
anarchist sheet issued in London. The
Inmates that hc is sorry he did not do it,
and that he only left because he knew it
was not safe for him there. He was on the
Pacific coast until the anarchist trial ended,
and then worked his way to Canton, sydney
Bombay and Norway, being now on one Of
rings.
A very destructive cyclone visited Bel
mont County, Ohio, on the afternoon of the
18th, extending over . space of country
about II miles in length, reaching Martins
st. Clairsville the fury of the blast was the
greatest, and no adequate statement can bc
made Of the scene of ruin and desolation
where the tornado struck. At Bellaire, Ban
toms station, Pasco and Martins Ferry
great havoc was wrought. A number OF
pGISCIS NGTO DuL OuO I0tallLy OC-
CURED. Fifty families were rendered home
less at st. Gainesville. The aggregate loss
will reach fully Si,OO,.OOO.
The following has been received by the
Interstate commerce commission: San
Jose, Cal.-The New Almaden is the largest
quicksilver producing mine in the United
States. Its principal works are in New
York, where its product comes into com
petition with Spanish quicksilver, shipped
at low rates of freight from London. The
present transcontincntal rates shut us out
of the New York market entirely, and will
consequently have a disastrous effect on
this industry. |. b. RANDpI, Manager.
Il nSeveral kilograms have been received
) ON the Pacific coast fruit industry,
letting forth the disasters threatened by
he new transcontinental rates.
At New Rochelle, N. Y, on the 10Th, one
of the strangcst accidents occurred that has
ever been witnessed by railroad men, An un-
known man while walking along the track
was struck by q freight train and his body
where it lay until Larchmont was reached.
There it tell to the road bed and both feet
were cut of. Another train ON the oppO-
site track struck the unfortunate man and
once more he was hurled upon the pilot and
lay there until New Rochelle was again
trunk fell under the wheels u second time.
When the train moved on It was seen that
only the headless trunk remained after the
was found to tell who the man was.
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